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Whitechapel 1870

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]

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Table: TABLE II.Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases, for the Three Months ending 1st January, 1870.

TABLE II.

Showing the Deaths from Epidemic Diseases, for the Three Months ending 1st January, 1870.

Districts.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlet-Fever.Diphtheria.Hooping-Cough.Diarrhœa.Fever.Cholera.Total.Remarks.
Artillery0130511011
Spitalfields06151322029
Mile End New Town07170552036Workhouse.
Whitechapel, North0471322019
White chapel Church0260124015Hospital.
Goodman's Fields0180100l11
Aldgate0360630018
Totals0246222415111139
Deaths from Epidemics for the corresponding Quarter, 1868.1131936831084

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There were 2 deaths from pyaemia in the London Hospital, 1 from typhus fever, 1 from typhoid
fever, and 5 from scarlet fever. In the Workhouse there was 1 death from diarrhoea.

Table: TABLE III.The Births and Deaths in each Registration District, for the Three Months ending on the1st January, 1870.

TABLE III.

The Births and Deaths in each Registration District, for the Three Months ending on the

1st January, 1870.

Districts.Births.Total.Deaths.Total.Excess of Births over Deaths.Excess of Deaths over Births.Remarks
M.F.M.F.
Artillery202545161834110
Spitalfields7060130504191390
Mile End N. Town809617610186190014Workhouse.
Whitechapel, N.534390382967290
Whitechpel Church362561103601630102London Hospital.
Goodman's Fields39428126234932082 Non-residents died in the London Hospital.
Aldgate38347242216390
Totals336325661379278657120116Excess of Births over Deaths, deducting the 82 non-residents, 86.

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Population in 1801, 78,970.